Food Animal Medicine and Surgery Clinic - NBC

This elective rotation is designed to provide additional experience in food animal medicine and surgery to 4th year students who are likely to pursue food animal practice following graduation. Students will participate in the diagnosis and treatment of food animals’ (cattle, small ruminants, camelids and swine) medical and surgical diseases. Teaching rounds will involve daily barn rounds covering medical and surgical topics. The emphasis will be on individual animal (as opposed to herd health) problems but influence of individual animal disease on herd health will be also discussed on a case-by-case basis. Students will be responsible for after-hours treatments and emergencies of food animals only; students will not work with equine patients during this rotation. Each student will have 2-3 weeknights and one 24-hour weekend shift during the rotation (based on 8-10 students enrolled). Each student will have one 24-hour weekend shift completely off each week of the 3-week rotation. Students electing to enroll on this rotation must also enroll in Food Animal Anesthesia (VCSN 8735) as each student will spend 2/3 weeks on Food Animal Medicine and Surgery and 1/3 weeks on Food Animal Anesthesia. Other prerequisites include the following courses: • VCSN 6400 Large Animal Medicine elective • VCSN 6320 Diseases and Management of Sheep and Goats • VCSN 7115 Food Animal Imaging and Diagnostic Pathology • VCSN 7125 Food Animal Reproduction • VCSN 8805 Dairy Production Medicine " 6 Credit Hours